AWS Ambassador Program

Arshik Dhar is an accomplished AWS DevOps Architect with 10 years of expertise in designing, architecting, and deploying robust cloud solutions. With a proven track record in both public (AWS) and private cloud infrastructures, Arshik specializes in Cloud Platform Engineering, Cloud Security Assessment, Cloud Migration, Generative AI development, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, Observability, Configuration Management etc. Having successfully led Greenfield and Brownfield AWS deployments for mission-critical migrations, he has driven cloud adoption initiatives for healthcare, insurance, banking, and some of the world's largest automotive manufacturers. His deep technical acumen, coupled with a strategic approach to cloud transformation and automation, makes him an invaluable asset in modernizing enterprise infrastructures for optimized performance and security.

Elad Hirsch is a Tech Lead at TeraSky's CTO Office, leading cloud-native and AI-driven initiatives. With 18 years of experience in software development, cloud, and DevOps, he specializes in Generative AI, Kubernetes, and scalable architectures. As an AWS Ambassador and active builder, Elad lead TeraSky’s AWS efforts, helping organizations enhance scalability, automation, and cost efficiency. He is a key speaker at AWS events, and cloud-native conferences, shaping the future of AI and cloud innovation.

Sang Hyun Jo has experience in AI Applied Data Analytics, with a specialized focus on healthcare, marketing, and consumer behavior analytics. Part of his career journey involved being in academia at a university, where he served as a review editor for SCI journals, merging academic insights with practical data analysis applications. Currently, he is working at Samsung SDS, applying his expertise in the industry. With years of experience under his belt, Sang Hyun brings a perspective to his current role, which extends beyond data analytics into Generative AI project planning, execution, and consulting. In this capacity, he helps organizations navigate the complexities of Generative AI project planning and execution, ensuring successful outcomes. He has worked with clients across multiple sectors, including finance, transportation, public sectors, and retail, helping them to harness the power of AI to achieve their strategic objectives.

Tuan Vu is a Solution Architect with 10 years of systems experience and over 5 years in Cloud Computing, specializing in AWS. He has a proven track record of designing, implementing, and managing complex cloud solutions across multiple platforms, including AWS and GCP, with a primary focus on AWS. Tuan Vu is passionate about leveraging the power of AWS to help businesses achieve their goals. He excels at understanding customer needs and problems, advising on solutions, and designing customer infrastructures for the cloud in a robust, scalable, and secure manner. A firm believer in continuous learning, he stays up-to-date with the latest AWS advancements and best practices to further assist customers. Want to learn more about his experience and approach to cloud solutions? Connect with him at https://tuanvd.com

Xu Yebao is a senior partner solution architect at VSTECS, focusing on AWS services and demonstrating outstanding technical expertise. He played a key role in guiding the second generation and customers to develop AWS development paths, and made important contributions to VSTECS's successful acquisition of 2 competency certifications and 4 service delivery (SD) certifications, fully demonstrating the team's professional strength in the AWS field. Obtained multiple AWS competency certifications. Since engaging in Amazon cloud technical support, he has repeatedly cooperated with agents and customers to complete technical upgrades, training and certification, and provide technical solutions, and actively promote the UG community culture. Xu Yebao's professional background and rich experience make him an outstanding representative in the AWS Ambassador Program. His contributions not only enhance the technical capabilities of VSTECS, but also make important contributions to the growth and development of the AWS community.

A forward-thinking industry leader and CxO advisor, Surjeet brings over two decades of experience in IT, specializing in Strategy Consulting, Technology Consulting, and comprehensive Cloud Solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Cloud Native technologies. Fully AWS certified, he continuously seeks to learn and grow, staying at the forefront of industry advancements. Currently, Surjeet is leading an intense Data Science engagement, implementing a Data Mesh architecture using the AWS ecosystem. He is establishing a cutting-edge playground for Data Scientists and AI/ML Engineers to conduct experiments, redefining how enterprises leverage data for innovation and insights. Surjeet excels at addressing technical and organizational challenges related to Cloud Transformation, Digital Decoupling, and Application Modernization. His passion for client success drives him to solve complex problems with a relentless focus on customer obsession, ensuring that every solution exceeds expectations and delivers tangible value. With exceptional proficiency in managing and delivering complex programs from initiation to completion, he demonstrates expertise in Agile methodologies, DevSecOps practices, Cloud Operations, and Service Delivery frameworks such as ITIL and ServiceNow. Surjeet ensures the successful execution of programs while achieving optimal outcomes. Surjeet has a proven sales track record and is actively involved in prospecting, lead generation, and building strong client relationships. He excels in communicating complex technical solutions to stakeholders at all levels, from sales teams and customers to executives. He brings extensive infrastructure experience in both on-premises and Cloud environments, with a focus on sustainable practices and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) principles. Actively leveraging AI and GenAI for Cloud Strategy and Digital Transformation, Surjeet provides thought leadership in AWS, Multicloud, ESG, and GenAI.

Amine Aitelharraj is an accomplished IT leader with 9 years of industry experience, including 5 years driving innovation at AWS as part of the French Professional Services team. As a strategic manager, Amine spearheaded the development of open-source frameworks that empowers organizations to build scalable and secure data marketplaces on AWS, enhancing data democratization and business value. Amine is renowned for his expertise in leading cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven solutions, prioritizing security, compliance, and cost efficiency. He excels in architecting modern, serverless infrastructures. A passionate advocate for professional growth and continuous learning, Amine holds AWS Certifications across Professional and Specialty levels. His leadership philosophy centers on fostering innovation, empowering teams, and driving transformative outcomes through technology.

Anthony Wat is a seasoned cloud and DevOps architect with deep expertise in software development, modernization, and automation. As a Technical Practice Lead at Softchoice, he specializes in AWS solutions, full-lifecycle cloud adoption, and AI-driven application modernization.

Ajith is a seasoned cloud infrastructure expert with close to two decades of experience, specializing in AWS. He has led AWS infrastructure provisioning, enabling seamless application migrations and multi-cloud computing for Fortune 500 companies and Government & Public Services clients. Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, and related practices, he ensures solutions align with the AWS Well-Architected Framework for delivering scalable infrastructure, applications, and analytics. His expertise spans cloud migration, security, cost optimization, and containerization using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. He actively contributes to the global AWS community through blogs, hackathons, and AWS Partner Network programs.

Chris Bingham, a seasoned cloud strategist and architect and CTO of Fujitsu in Switzerland, was one of the first AWS-certified Solution Architects. With over 23 years of experience, including 12 years working exclusively on cloud topics, Chris partners with businesses seeking to leverage the cloud to craft strategies which deliver their long-term objectives.
His expertise encompasses critical areas such as data centre-to-cloud migrations, data analytics platforms, modern application architectures, and regulatory compliance in multiple industries.

Johnny is a seasoned expert in the AWS ecosystem, with over a decade of technical experience. His extensive background in AWS solutions at scale is complemented by his active engagement with the AWS community. Johnny is also an accomplished speaker and writer, having presented at major conferences such as AWS re:Invent and contributed insightful blogs that resonate with the AWS community. His expertise is further validated by his attainment of multiple AWS certifications. In his current role as the EMEA Technical Director for AWS at PwC, Johnny plays a pivotal role in unifying the technical community. He provides strategic leadership on AWS and PwC initiatives, driving AWS adoption across PwC member firms and advocating for AWS solutions where they add value to both new and existing clients.

Trevor Sullivan is a Solutions Architect at StratusGrid and a software industry professional with more than 20 years of cloud and automation experience.

Nausheen is an AWS Solutions Architect in PwC's Cloud Engineering practice based out of Washington, DC. She has over 9 years of experience designing and building solutions in the cloud space, with a focus on reliability and security. She is a builder at heart, who enjoys upskilling on emerging cloud services and mentoring new graduates on ways to build a career in cloud.

Clement Pakkam Isaac is a Specialist Senior at Deloitte Consulting and a distinguished Solutions Architect holding 15 AWS certifications. With over 12 years of experience in technical consulting and leadership, he has designed and implemented large-scale cloud solutions for the higher education and consumer industries. Clement’s expertise spans Automation, Generative AI, Resiliency, Observability, Security, Migration, Modernization, and Digital transformation. As a trusted advisor, he empowers organizations to adopt advanced cloud practices and drive innovation through scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions.

A technologist with an innovative spirit and exceptional motivation, Ravi brings to the table over 20 years of IT experience with the financial industry in the areas of Investment Banking, Equities and Fixed Income Trading etc. He has proven track record of designing and implementing pioneering cloud solutions in large IT enterprises, utilizing hyperscaler providers such as AWS.

Akhil, the Senior Manager of AWS Migration at RTDS, brings over 13 years of experience in the IT industry. His technical expertise is reflected through a suite of prestigious certifications, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty, Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer, AWS SysOps Administrator, and ITIL v3. As a Distinguished Cloud Architect, he possesses in-depth experience in architecture, design, solution building, business transitions, data center migrations, cloud foundation establishment, and cloud adoption acceleration. He is dedicated to continuous learning and expanding his expertise in essential technology domains. His specializations include cloud solutions, Cloud Adoption roadmaps, blogging, consulting, and relationship management with people, clients, and stakeholders

Cedric De Schepper is a Solutions Architect at Deloitte. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing cloud infrastructures across industries. He works closely with clients to assess current environments, plan cloud migrations, and lead the technical execution of proposed solutions.

Cheol Gu Lee has worked as as an IT Architect and Consultant for IT at LGCNS for 25 years, including consulting on LG global IT Center, Build Private Cloud for customer, and consulting on transition to public cloud. Successfully carried out mass migration to AWS by leading the AWS 70in70 Project to transform LG CNS' entire IT environment to AWS. Contributing to establishing customer's Public Cloud First strategy and leading the expansion of public cloud by sharing quarterly Cloud Trend Reports, made direction suggestions to key customers in each field.

Jeff serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ClearScale, where he leads technical teams and oversees the company’s technical strategy. He is a lifelong learner, with over 13 years of experience in AWS technologies, Jeff was among the first globally to achieve both the AWS Solutions Architect Professional and AWS DevOps Professional certifications. He has a proven track record of leading diverse technical teams across multiple disciplines, including software development, IoT, big data, serverless computing, data science, enterprise cloud migration, and DevOps transformation. Residing in Austin, TX, with his wife and four children, Jeff enjoys the city’s vibrant music scene.

Zakaria is a Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and an AWS Generative AI Architect at Eviden. Zakaria has more than 8 years of experience on small and large scale AWS projects including Cloud Landing Zones, Hub&Spoke network architectures, event driven security architectures, IAC using terraform, AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK, CI/CD using tools such as Github Action, Bitbucket pipeline, Gitlab CI, and AWS CodePipeline, Microservices Architectures using ECS, Fargate and EKS, Big Data architectures, Serverless architectures, End User Computing (EUC) using Amazon Appstream and Workspace, Data Migration using Amazon Datasync and Snowball, and Generative AI using Amazon Bedrock. He has also worked on Disaster Recovery Strategy, and conducted the AWS Well Architected Framework Review for some clients. Zakaria has also delivered online training to accelerate team ramp-up on the AWS cloud. With his Engineering Degree and a MSc degree in Big Data, Zakaria is also an AWS Generative AI Architect and has strong foundations on Data Lake, ML, MLOps, LLM, LLMOps, GenOps, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Prompt Engineering, Knowledge Base, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Embedding, Vector Store, LLM Agent, Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. He is also working on building the Eviden’s GenOps Framework and contributed to obtain the AWS Generative AI Competency for Eviden. Zakaria holds all the AWS 15 Certifications.

Zipporah Wachira (Zippy) is an accomplished AWS Cloud Solutions Architect at Silicon Overdrive, with over five years of experience in the ICT industry. Beginning her career in Networking Technologies, Zippy transitioned to cloud technologies three years ago, where she discovered her passion for architecting innovative solutions and guiding clients through complex cloud migration journeys.

JinFeng is the CTO of Xiamen Hanwei Software Technology, he has been engaged in IT industry for more than 10 years. Before entering the field of cloud computing, he was mainly engaged in system integration. He was responsible for SAP ECC and HANA projects in the manufacturing industry, and Oracle RAC database upgrade and transformation projects in the medical and financial industries. He has relevant experience in hardware and application disaster recovery and high availability. In 2017, he entered the field of cloud computing and joined Amazon Cloud and worked as an SA. He studied and researched in computing, networking, database and serverless.

Miguel is a Cloud Architect at Logicalis Spain with vast experience in Infrastructure and Cloud environments.  He has worked the last few years helping customers on their journey to the cloud and has been involved in several large enterprise projects to implement Cloud native and hybrid cloud solutions.

Adit Modi is a Solutions Architect at Lauren with over a decade of hands-on experience in cloud and DevOps. He holds 10 AWS certifications and specializes in AWS-related DevOps, Data Engineering, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). As an AWS Ambassador and HashiCorp Ambassador, Adit is a passionate advocate for community-driven growth, actively contributing to the tech community as a speaker, organizer, and volunteer.